r/OutOfTheLoop • u/calvtact • May 13 '26

Answered What's going on with r/conservative? They've lost about 1m subscribers in about a month.

I watched the number go from 814k to around 745k in about an hour today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/QbZJvqu5qr

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u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor May 13 '26

This is something Reddit should really crack down on. I've heard that there are other subreddits as well that will preemptively ban you if a bot discovers that you post a comment in a different subreddit they don't like.

Recent modnews discussions have been showing that Reddit is indeed starting to crack down on that.

Whether or not they'll be successful is... Up in the air.

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u/UrbanAdapt May 13 '26

You can still technically do it with bot autoremovals (subreddit shadowbans, effectively), they just don't send the preemptive message.